Don't put your eggs in IIPM's basket

This week certainly belonged to IIML. First of all Nimish Adani (IIML - 2003) spoke out about the rampant goonda gardi by certain Bangalore railway officials. Now it appears Gaurav Sabnis (IIML - 2004) has decided to take on IIPM and its self styled Management guru - Arindam Chaudhari.

Gaurav had linked his blog to certain stories about how IIPM and Chaudhari are laughing all the way to the bank by making its students count chickens. It was a nicely researched article which threw up some very convincing possibilities about IIPM and Chaudhari. After about a month or so IIPM authorities served a legal notice on him claiming damages worth 125 crores! The notice really makes for a hilarious read. Makes you wonder what the authorities were thinking while drafting the notice. Most probably they weren't thinking at all.

Chaudhari is a smart man or more likely surrounded by smart people. Why then would he allow something like this which has the potential to blow up in his face? By serving the notice IIPM has ensured this issue gets a huge deal of attention online which obviously has certain risks.

Firstly its the students of the institute themselves! Even if a single IIPM student / alumni supports the allegations made against Chaudhari it would dent the institutes and Chaudhari's reputation beyond redemption. Secondly any sting operation by the media is bound to become a pain for IIPM.

If Chaudhari was looking at getting some publicity out of this then it is surely destined to back fire and make him look like a ugly duckling. The only way left for IIPM to come out of this mess is by answering to all allegations against Chaudhari and IIPM. Rest assured that the pony tailed guy is up for a hairy mess ahead.

I don't know about chickens but I certainly wont put my eggs in IIPM's basket.